Passenham

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Passenham
Northamptonshire

St Guthlac, Passenham
Location
Grid reference: SP780395
Location: 52°2’53"N, -0°51’50"W
Data
Post town: Milton Keynes
Postcode: MK19
Dialling code: 01908
Local Government
Council: West Northamptonshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Daventry

Passenham is a small village by Old Stratford in the south-west of Northamptonshire. It is found just north of the Great Ouse, which river forms the border with Buckinghamshire, across which stands Stony Stratford, at the edge of Milton Keynes.[1]

Church

The Church of St Guthlac has a late 13th-century tower, the upper part rebuilt 1626. The chancel was built in 1626 by Sir Robert Banastre.[2] Some remarkable furnishings, stalls and misericords date from 1626. There are also original wall paintings[2] which were restored in the 1960s. Also notable are box pews, stained glass and a monument to Banastre.

Outside links

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References

  1. Map of Old Stratford Parish Council area showing location of Passenham
  2. 2.0 2.1 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3

Brown, O.B.; Roberts, G.J. (1973). Passenham: The History of a Forest Village. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. ISBN 9780900592638. OCLC 3241834.